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My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be… — Lincoln Child
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it… — Jules Renard
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. — John Florio
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory. — Jean-Luc Godard
I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies. — Tracie Bennett
You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and… — Gary Ackerman
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. — Charles Spurgeon
'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. — Sylvester Stallone
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… — Mary Wollstonecraft
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as… — Stephen King
Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they… — Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous… — Chuck Klosterman
What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful? — Fernando Pessoa
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you… — Diana Gabaldon
He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?"… — Julie Garwood
They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she… — Laini Taylor
I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of… — Meg Cabot
Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we… — David Levithan
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory… — Jodi Picoult
Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories. — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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